So, I got up stupidly early on Saturday 10th December to make sure I had everything packed. 7.45am I was ready and packed the car and headed to my friend Meryls house. Mel had provided everything for my table to make it look beautiful and had offered to come to the hall and help me set up. When we got there the Hall was set up with about 45 tables downstairs and the rest upstairs. We hunted around in the main room looking for a table with my name on it. Disappointment set in as I realised I was upstairs. We lugged everything up and there was my table, in a room with 6 others. We set my table up and it looked beautiful!! My sister arrived in time to get changed into our 'Pinkys Cards' t-shirts and then the customers started coming in. There was a good trickle of customers for most of the day, but there were also big periods when there was no one apart from us sellers up there!!
(the beautiful Mel - Home Grown Bride, looking very proud of the table!!)
Apparently our fair was on the same weekend that Woburn and Bletchley had got their handmade fairs on too. On top of that, Milton Keynes had got the Red Bull racing cars down, racing around the city centre, this meant there were a load of roads closed for the racing cars to use. knowing this now, I understand why the fair was a quiet one!!!
HOWEVER I think that for my 1st fair I did bloody well!! I made nearly £60 and gave out LOADS of business cards!! I even had some interest for wedding stationary!!! so I am very positive from this experience!! I met some lovely people and have the beginnings of hopefully some good friendships.
my favourite part of the fair:
a couple of girls were browsing at my stall and I asked them if they were looking for anything in particular. 1 girl said she was looking for a card for her grandfather. So I chatted with her about what sort of things he likes and after a minute or so she stood up looking disheartened. she said he had some sort of problem where he could only really see the colour yellow clearly. I routed around in the boxes behind my stall and pulled out 2 cards I had made in yellow. her face lit up. It was the same design as the cards she had been looking through, I had done them in all non Christmassy colours but hadn't put them out on display. she gave me a huge grin and told me that it would make her grandfathers Christmas receiving a card he can see clearly. that made me feel so warm and fuzzy inside!!!
I'm looking forward to the next fair, one where i wont have to focus SO much on Christmas cards! My tattoo range went down a storm so will have to look into investing in a few more Bombshell stamps methinks!!!
OK, well that's it for now. will try and blog again before Christmas - have slipped a disc though so I'll have to see how I'm feeling!
Big Love - Speak soon!xxxxx
